Sc. Forms: 4 talȝe, 5 tailȝe, -ȝee, tayllie, 6 tailze, -zee, tailye, 8–9 tailzie (with z for ȝ = y, yh, in print after 1500). [Early Sc. talȝe, tailȝe, a. F. taille, infl. of tailler to cut, etc.; = corresp. English TAIL v.2 The mod. tailzie is, as in the sb., an erroneous form for tailȝe or tailye.]
† 1. trans. To cut; to cut to shape. Obs.
1581. Satir. Poems Reform., xliv. 200. Thou … I vene, The peperit beif can tailȝe be the threid.
1589. Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 421. Twa talyeit rubyis in chattonis, and three rubyis caboshon,… being of his Majesteis jowellis.
† 2. To determine, settle, appoint, arrange. Obs.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XIX. 188. And eftir syne war trewis tane Betuix the twa kyngis, that wer Talit [v.r. tailȝeit] to lest for thretten ȝheir.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxi. (Clement), 346. Sic fortone sal ȝe haf nedlinge, As was ȝow talȝet in ȝoure getting.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 269. The bataill be tane under certane condicioun of tayllid strakis.
3. Sc. Law. To determine or tie up the succession to (an estate); to entail; = TAIL v.2 5.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 395. King Robert set ane parliament at Ayre, in the quhilk … he gat the croun of Scotland tailyet to him and the aris-male gottin of his body.
a. 1557. Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Cl.), 24. The lord Erroll marijt the erle of Lennox sistar, quha bure him ane daughter; his landis was tailyeit.
1747. Act 20 Geo. II., c. 50 § 14. It shall and may be lawful for any Person … possessed of a Tailzied Estate in Scotland, to sell, dispone, or resign … any Part thereof, which his Majesty … shall think fit to purchase, for erecting of Buildings, or making Settlements within the same.
1806. Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., IV. 150. In 1315 Thomas de Loch Orr is in the parliament at Air that tailzied the crown.
1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. li. 864. Proprietors were enabled to tailzie their lands, that is, to make a destination of their estates so as effectually to fetter the power of alienation of future proprietors.
† 4. To keep account or tally of. Obs.
1497. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 351. Thome Foret, to remane in Dunbar to resaue and store and tailȝee the lyme, sand and othir gere. Ibid. (1539), VII. 217. George Balglavy for awayting and keiping and tailȝeing of the said tymmer, lyme, send, and stane.
Hence Tailyed, tailzied ppl. a., cut to shape; appointed, fixed, arranged; entailed.
1456. [see 2].
1589. [see 1].
1747. [see 3].
